1st Edition

Religion, Secularism and Politics A Mediterranean View

Edited By Jeffrey Haynes, Guy Ben-Porat Copyright 2014
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Political debates in many Mediterranean countries today are increasingly framed in dichotomous terms, highlighting divisions between religious and secular worldviews. The role of religion in public life or, put another way, the ‘public return of religion’, is a pertinent and controversial political question everywhere in the Mediterranean region. How do we explain this phenomenon? On the one... Read more

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7. The Debate on the Crucifix in Public Spaces in Twenty-First Century Italy  Luca Ozzano and Alberta Giorgi

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9. The ‘Europeanization’ of the Religious Cleavage in Turkey: The Case of the Alevis  Kivanc Ulusoy

Biography

Jeffrey Haynes is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 35 books. He is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Guy Ben-Porat is the author of Between State and Synagogue (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ben-Gurion University, Israel.